India, June 12 -- It looks like Indian is preparing to take the electric motorcycle fight to manufacturers like Harley-Davidson & Zero Motorcycles.

According to a recent media report, Indian Motorcycle has filed a global patent for the name 'EFTR'. Now, it's not too difficult to join the dots here as an 'E' before the name 'FTR' quite plainly hints at some sort of an electric motorcycle based on the American bikemaker's FTR 1200 . And the fact that the name EFTR has been filed under the 'electric motorcycle' category further clears the air on the matter. Plus, given that it's a worldwide patent (filed in multiple countries), it looks like the EFTR will also make it to markets outside the United States.

Unfortunately, nothing beyond this i...